EP 0767352 B1 20010418 - Process and apparatus for the production of moderate purity oxygen
Title (en)
Process and apparatus for the production of moderate purity oxygen
Title (de)
Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Herstellung von Sauerstoff mässiger Reinheit
Title (fr)
Procédé et dispositif de production d'oxygène à pureté modérée
Publication
Application
Priority
US 53854195 A 19951003
Abstract (en)
[origin: US5592832A] The present invention relates to a cryogenic process and apparatus for production of an oxygen product from air, characterized in that a multiple passage plate-fin heat exchanger having at least two sets of passages is used to effectuate the rectifying and stripping functions, wherein one set of passages comprises a continuous-contact rectification dephlegmator which rectifies the separator vapor and produces the enriched-nitrogen rectifier overhead and the crude liquid oxygen bottoms; wherein a second set of passages comprises a continuous-contact stripping dephlegmator which strips the oxygen-enriched liquid to produce the nitrogen-enriched stripper overhead and the oxygen product; wherein reflux of the rectification device and boilup for the stripping device is provided, at least in part, by indirect heat exchange between and along said two sets of passages, thereby producing a thermal link between the rectification dephlegmator and the stripping dephlegmator.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
F25J 3/00 (2006.01); F25J 3/02 (2006.01); F25J 3/04 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
F25J 3/0409 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 3/04206 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 3/04303 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 3/0463 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 3/04872 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 5/007 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 2200/04 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 2205/02 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 2205/04 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 2215/50 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 2250/40 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 2250/50 (2013.01 - EP US); F25J 2290/32 (2013.01 - EP US); Y10S 62/903 (2013.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
BE DE ES FR GB IT NL
DOCDB simple family (publication)
US 5592832 A 19970114; CA 2186550 A1 19970404; CA 2186550 C 19991102; CN 1129767 C 20031203; CN 1160181 A 19970924; DE 69612532 D1 20010523; DE 69612532 T2 20010823; DE 69612532 T3 20050127; EP 0767352 A2 19970409; EP 0767352 A3 19971001; EP 0767352 B1 20010418; EP 0767352 B2 20040728; JP 2833594 B2 19981209; JP H09170875 A 19970630; KR 100228590 B1 19991101; TW 297089 B 19970201
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 53854195 A 19951003; CA 2186550 A 19960926; CN 96120133 A 19960927; DE 69612532 T 19961002; EP 96307221 A 19961002; JP 26280096 A 19961003; KR 19960043357 A 19961001; TW 85107156 A 19960614